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Peter Schmuck | June 15, 2013
The Orioles have been, for the past season and a half, one of the most opportunistic teams in baseball, so it would not be fair for them to curse the fates for letting one promising opportunity slip away in a 5-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox. They can curse home plate umpire Jeff Nelson if they want, as he blew a call that led to a pair of Red Sox runs in a three-run fourth inning on Saturday. They can curse their own inability to put the hammer down on Boston pitcher John Lackey when they had a chance to get more out of a first-inning rally that might have made things a lot more comfortable for starting pitcher Freddy Garcia.
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By Daniel Gallen and The Baltimore Sun | June 15, 2013
Through the first two games of this four-game series with Boston, the Orioles pitching staff kept a potent Red Sox lineup in check. Boston tallied 12 hits in 74 at-bats in the two Orioles wins for a paltry .181 average and four runs. Despite the success, Orioles manager Buck Showalter kept speaking to the potent nature of the Red Sox's lineup, and in the Orioles' 5-4 loss Saturday afternoon , those bats finally came alive. When the Red Sox put three runs across in the fourth inning, it broke a streak of 18 consecutive scoreless innings posted by Orioles pitchers.
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By Daniel Gallen and The Baltimore Sun | June 14, 2013
The Orioles' 5-4 win in 13 innings over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night featured a potential future ace, one of the game's current top hitters and one of the best power hitters of the past decade. With right-hander Kevin Gausman on the mound, first baseman Chris Davis producing more heroics and Boston designated hitter David Ortiz going deep, it had all the makings of a classic American League East matchup. But a much more nuanced statistic could have been lost in the shuffle of the Orioles and Red Sox combining to use 11 relievers in the first game of a four-game series.
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By Dan Connolly | June 14, 2013
The evolution of Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman continued Friday night with an outing that was reminiscent of an experienced veteran and not a guy who was in the minors a year ago wondering about his future in the organization. In the Orioles' 2-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox in front of a nearly packed house on a picture-perfect baseball evening at Camden Yards, Tillman did what good pitchers are supposed to do. He won without having particularly strong command, walking four to tie his season high set in the first game of the year.
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Peter Schmuck | May 21, 2013
The Orioles were not a perfect team in 2012, though it's easy to get nostalgic about their first truly competitive season of this century. They were plugging holes in the starting rotation throughout the summer. They needed several months to assemble an adequate defense. And clutch hitting was always an issue. The only component of the club that was never cause for serious concern was the bullpen, which was pretty much airtight and was the main reason the Orioles put up otherworldly numbers in one-run and extra-inning games.
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By Mike Klingaman, The Baltimore Sun | May 19, 2013
May 23, 1991: Mired in last place, the Orioles fire manager Frank Robinson and promote Johnny Oates, 45, the team's first base coach and a former Baltimore player. Oates will manage nearly four years here (291 wins and 270 losses) before going to Texas, where he is named 1996 American League Manager of the Year. May 25, 1985: Del Dressel's three goals lead Johns Hopkins past Syracuse, 11-4, for the NCAA lacrosse championship. The four goals by the Orangemen are the fewest allowed in a title game, a mark that will stand until 2012.